Quotes by Amol Palekar

People liked the fact that Amol-Palekar wasn’t Superman, that he was an ordinary man who traveled by bus or local train, who actually went to office and worked. This was rare in movies then.
– Amol Palekar

I will act if there is a role which gives me some challenge, butterflies in my stomach. I don’t want to play a generic father. When I was only an actor I didn’t follow a beaten track, why will I do it now?
– Amol Palekar

Shouting from the rooftop is not my nature at all. I am known so much for understatement that when one of my contemporaries was talking about my acting, he said acting kahan karta hai. I feel that was the best compliment.
– Amol Palekar

But that’s fine, absolutely fine. If there is someone who comes up with a good role, something which will once again excite me, by all means I’ll do it, irrespective of any language, as I did when I was acting.
– Amol Palekar

I got immense satisfaction in that moment when I am not saying the next dialogue, when I can hear my co-actor’s clock ticking, I can hear my own heartbeat, and I can also feel the audience holding their breath. They don’t even move thinking there will be a creak…that silence is so golden and so important.
– Amol Palekar

We are becoming much more self-centered. What concerns us is what do I get out of this. How I move forward, what kind of society I want, what do I do for somebody else doesn’t bother us and you see the reflection of it in the movies.
– Amol Palekar